Specially Adapted Housing Program

Overview The Specially Adapted Housing (SAH) program offers grants to Servicemembers and Veterans with certain severe service-connected disabilities. The grants assist with building, remodeling or purchasing an adapted home.

What Is a Specially Adapted Housing (SAH) Grant?

The Specially Adapted Housing (SAH) grant helps disabled Veterans and Servicemembers enjoy barrier-free living. One example is a wheelchair accessible home. This can provide an independent living that might not otherwise be possible.

Veterans and Service members with specific service-connected disabilities may be eligible. You must be entitled to disability compensation due to:

Loss or loss of use of both legs

Unable to move around without the aid of braces, crutches, canes or a wheelchair

Blindness in both eyes, plus loss or loss of use of one leg

Loss of loss of use of one leg, and:-Residuals of organic disease or injury OR-Loss or loss of use of one arm, affecting balance and ability to move without aid

Loss or loss of use of both arms at or above the elbows

Severe burn injury

What Is a Special Housing Adaptation (SHA) Grant?

The Special Housing Adaptation (SHA) grant can be used to increase your mobility throughout your residence. The current maximum grant amount is $17,130. The maximum grant amount adjusts annually, so please visit the website https://www.benefits.va.gov/homeloans/adaptedhousing.asp.

Veterans and Service members with specific service-connected disabilities may be eligible. You must be entitled to disability compensation due to one of the following:

Blindness in both eyes with 20/200 visual acuity or less in the better eye with the use of a corrective lens

Anatomical loss or loss of use of both hands or arms below the elbow

Severe burn injury

What Is a Temporary Residence Assistance (TRA) Grant?

You can receive a temporary SAH/SHA grant to adapt the home of a family member. The maximum amount available to adapt a family members home for the SAH grant is $37,597 and for the SHA grant is $6,713. The maximum grant amounts adjust annually, so please visit the website https://www.benefits.va.gov/homeloans/adaptedhousing.asp.

What Is a Home Improvements and Structural Alterations (HISA) Grant?

If you are a Servicemember or Veteran with a permanent and total service-connected disability, you may be entitled to a Specially Adapted Housing (SAH) grant or a Special Housing Adaptation (SHA) grant. The table below provides an overview of VA's housing grant programs for Veterans with certain service-connected disabilities.

Service-connected disabilities: home improvement benefits up to $6,800

Non-service-connected disabilities: home improvement benefits up to $2,000

VR&E may provide home adaptations to individuals who are not currently able to work because of the effects of their service-connected disabilities, or who require adaptations to achieve a vocational goal. The benefits are limited to those required to improve independence at home and/or in the community. Home adaptations up to $85,645 may be provided as part of an approved rehabilitation plan.